Book Cliffs

View of layered shale cliffs and hills in Mesa County, Colorado. A wire fence with timber posts and a haystack are in Grand Valley. Sparse trees and shrubs are on the Book Cliffs.

Date

[between 1900 and 1917?]

Notes

Accession number: 91.237.337; History Colorado.; Condition: masked.; Handwritten on envelope: "Industry-Oil Shale-Grand Valley District."; Number "17" inked on original negative and reproduced in photographic print.; Penciled on verso: "There are miles of Book Cliffs like these along the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in western Colorado and eastern Utah containing immense deposits of shale that will run from 50 to 100 gallons of oil to the ton, published in Railroad Red Book, Nov. 1917 p. 19."; Title supplied.; R7200052562